A message for susanjacobson and amaliestar

Got this call for papers in my inbox today (I'm on the UPenn CFP mailing list; comment or email if you're interested in how to get onto it) and thought you two might be interested:

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 2-5, 2006
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cmstudies.org/conference_index.html

The SCMS Caucus on Class ( http://terri1.home.mindspring.com ) is
sponsoring the following call for papers. Please send 150-word proposal, plus
brief bibliography and bio statement, by August 20, 2005.

"The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Cell Phone:
Recent Chinese Cinema and the Socialist-Capitalist Tradition"
The Chinese transition from a socialist to a market economy has
effected rapid changes in the country in the last 20 years and exacerbated
contradictions that were already pronounced in the Chinese system.
This panel examines the ways in which Chinese filmmakers have mapped those
contradictions in the last decade as they comment wryly on the process
of directly overlaying a socialist propaganda model with a market
propaganda model. The panel would look at how filmmakers are addressing these
contradictions both in documentary and fiction films, as in the fiction
work of filmmakers such as Jia Zhangke (The World) and the documentary work
of Wang Bing, whose 14-hour chronicle of the transformation of a Chinese
town, West of the Rails, reworks the concept of documentary.
CONTACT: Pat Keeton - pkeeton@ramapo.edu